Syn. — Romantic. — Sentimental, Romantic. Sentimental usually describes an error or excess of
the sensibilities; romantic, a vice of the imagination. The votary of the former gives indulgence to his
sensibilities for the mere luxury of their excitement; the votary of the latter allows his imagination to rove
for the pleasure of creating scenes of ideal enjoiment. "Perhaps there is no less danger in works called
sentimental. They attack the heart more successfully, because more cautiously." V. Knox. "I can not but
look on an indifferency of mind, as to the good or evil things of this life, as a mere romantic fancy of
such who would be thought to be much wiser than they ever were, or could be." Bp. Stillingfleet.
Sentimentalism
(Sen`ti*men"tal*ism) n. [Cf. F. sentimentalisme.] The quality of being sentimental; the
character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.
Sentimentalist
(Sen`ti*men"tal*ist), n. [Cf. F. sentimentaliste.] One who has, or affects, sentiment or
fine feeling.
Sentimentality
(Sen`ti*men*tal"i*ty) n. [CF. F. sentimentalité.] The quality or state of being sentimental.
Sentimentalize
(Sen`ti*men"tal*ize) v. t. To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a
subject.
Sentimentalize
(Sen`ti*men"tal*ize), v. i. To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to
affect exquisite sensibility. C. Kingsley.
Sentimentally
(Sen`ti*men"tal*ly), adv. In a sentimental manner.
Sentine
(Sen"tine) n. [L. sentina bilge water, hold of a ship, dregs: cf. F. sentine.] A place for dregs
and dirt; a sink; a sewer. [Obs.] Latimer.
Sentinel
(Sen"ti*nel), n. [F. sentinelle (cf. It. sentinella); probably originally, a litle path, the sentinel's
beat,, and a dim. of a word meaning, path; cf. F. sente path. L. semita; and OF. sentine, sentele,
senteret, diminutive words. Cf. Sentry.]
1. One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place,
from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry.
The sentinels who paced the ramparts.
Macaulay. 2. Watch; guard. [Obs.] "That princes do keep due sentinel." Bacon.
3. (Zoöl.) A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great
length of its eyestalks; — called also sentinel crab.
Sentinel
(Sen"ti*nel), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sentineled or Sentinelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Sentineling or
Sentinelling.]
1. To watch over like a sentinel. "To sentinel enchanted land." [R.] Sir W. Scott.
2. To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.
Sentisection
(Sen`ti*sec"tion) n. [L. sentire to feel + E. section.] Painful vivisection; — opposed to
callisection. B. G. Wilder.
Sentry
(Sen"try) n.; pl. Sentires [Probably from OF. senteret a little patch; cf. F. sentier path, and OF.
sente. See Sentinel.]
1. (Mil.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.
